“This past May, a fossil nicknamed Ida was loudly heralded by the evolutionary scientific community as the long-sought-after “missing link” that supposedly proved ape-to-human evolution.”
This what Hurum said:
“This is the first link to all humans,” Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents “the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor.”
Presumably Hurum sees Ida as part of evidence of evolution. As the Plosone reference showed that Human co-authored:
“Of particular importance to phylogenetic studies, the absence of a toilet claw and a toothcomb demonstrates that Darwinius masillae is not simply a fossil lemur, but part of a larger group of primates, Adapoidea, representative 1of the early haplorhine diversification.”
Your grandfather analogy doesn't fit.
Hurum is an idiot if quoted accurately as the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor of all humans is an early human, then there are archaic hominids; even australopithocines are a closer direct ancestor to all humans than a transitional between a lemur and a monkey.
Either way, a transitional between a monkey and a lemur can provide NO specific evidence to support the transition from even monkey to ape, let alone ape to human (which is even further down the line).
Thus the “heralded by the (sic) scientific community as the long sought after “missing link” that supposedly proved ape-to-human evolution” is a LIE.
Some morons must like being lied to. The target audience for this piece of propaganda.